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GRIMES DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300592 · 1 · RED DIRT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:38 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
Not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1903-12-31 — 273rd most senior of the 1231 structures with decreed rights in this water districtDWR's administrative subdivision of a river basin; the unit calls are usually stated in..
Under prior appropriationColorado's rule for sharing water: first in time, first in right. Age decides, not proximity or need., everything ahead of it in this line is satisfied in full before it receives any water. Immediately ahead: GRIMES BROOKS RESERVOIR (1903-06-12). Immediately behind: KIRBY DITCH (1903-12-31).
Decreed rights (1)
| Admin noDWR's numeric encoding of a water right's seniority. Smaller is more senior; the integer part counts days from 1849-12-31 to the date that ranks the right. | AppropriatedWhen water was first put to beneficial use. It sets seniority unless a prior adjudication date is later. | AdjudicatedWhen the water court confirmed the right. A use decreed in 1975 was not a decreed use in 1955, however old the appropriation is. | AbsoluteA right actually put to use, as opposed to conditional -- a placeholder for a use not yet made. | ConditionalA right reserving a place in line for a use not yet made; it must be diligently pursued or it lapses. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33023.19722 | 1903-12-31 | 1956-02-07 | 9.0125 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRFIRSTK | 280 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA1123, 00CW0275.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1123 | 1 | 1956-02-07 | S |
00CW0275 | 1 | 1956-02-07 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 507 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 595 AF — 117% of that, and 10th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| Year | Diverted (AFA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year.) | Compared with its own record | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 393 | 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | — | 133 | 2.5 |
| 2011 | 445 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | — | 135 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 237 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 47% of median | — | 90 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 541 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | — | 130 | 2.5 |
| 2014 | 105 | 1st lowest of 15 · 21% of median | — | 54 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 658 | 14th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | — | 135 | 3.6 |
| 2016 | 409 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | — | 168 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 697 | 15th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | — | 186 | 3.8 |
| 2018 | 606 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | — | 188 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 607 | 12th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | — | 189 | 2.2 |
| 2020 | 240 | 4th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | — | 161 | 2.1 |
| 2021 | 197 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 39% of median | — | 68 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 619 | 13th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | — | 204 | 3.6 |
| 2023 | 507 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 215 | 2.0 |
| 2024 | 595 | 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | — | 203 | 2.7 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 5336 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 50% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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